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" I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore. "
David Duchovny
Typecast
Anymore
Fear
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" I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. "
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" I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing. "
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" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "
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" Maybe the best things about celebrity are the things like being able to get that seat on the plane that you wouldn't normally get, but that's kind of like cheating. "
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" You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view. "
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